Posted on 04/07/2008 7:13:19 AM PDT by pissant
ATLANTA, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Hooters of America announced that the NCAA has pulled a full page ad promoting the popular restaurant chain and featuring well known College Basketball Analyst Dick Vitale from the Final Four Official Tournament Program. Word of the ad removal reached Hooters Marketing Department late on Thursday when the ad agency that had placed the ad on behalf of Hooters received an e-mail from a representative of National Events Publications, which produces and sells program ads for the NCAA. The ad in question is a Full Page 4 Color image promoting Hooters 25th Anniversary Celebration and features Dick Vitale and Sara Hoots, an appropriately named Hooters Girl, who happens to work for Hooters at a restaurant in Selma, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio where the Final Four is being played.
"My understanding is the NCAA had stated they would only consider the ad if we removed the image of a Hooters Girl, which is absurd. That would be like telling General Motors you can advertise but don't show a picture of a car," stated Mike McNeil the Vice President of Marketing for Hooters of America. "Sara is a beautiful, intelligent and hard working employee, and we would never consider removing her image from the ad. I am concerned by this last minute and seemingly arbitrary treatment. The basketball tournament is an important time for our business, and the fact that certain competitors of ours are allowed to advertise and we are not puts us at a competitive disadvantage," continued McNeil.
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Oh yeah, that objectionable.
I'm sure.
Must be the “lesbo lobby” getting bent out of shape over it.
Boy, what a fun bunch of guys, that NCAA. That’s probably the most demure Hooters ad I’ve ever seen.
}:-)4
and SO not guilty
Hip-hop and thug-related themes are OK however.
Apparently...
Final Four Gives Lesbians Forum To Celebrate Women
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr/05/na-final-four-gives-lesbians-forum-to-celebrate-wo/
The NCAA is a bastion of extreme political correctness with a monopoly on college sports which it uses to advance the liberal agenda. It is unsupervised, unaccountable, dictatorial, and unsportsmanlike.
She’s in desperate need of decoration.
What exactly is wrong with that ad?
HILARIOUS PICTURE
at least SOME women aren’t decoration...
Dick Vitale.
I wish I were a parquet floor.
She needs to hold that sign about 10 inches higher...
So not guilty.
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